Magento SEO Breadcrumbs

September 17, 2014 by JTS

Magento Breadcrumbs are a bit to be desired, when it comes to consistency and SEO purposes. Product breadcrumbs would shift to whatever the latest category they were added to. So if a product goes on sale in a special “sale” category, then the breadcrumb would be rebuilt and shown on the product page.

This had a negative effect on SEO, in that the products where showing up in sales or even newsletter categories.

We found a post here at StackOverflow and an answer by “Fiasco Labs” got us started on the right path.

Cisco BGP Router Issues Caused Massive Outages

August 13, 2014 by JTS

On August 12th 2014, several major internet providers and hosting companies were reporting massive outages and network routing issues. At first there was very little information concerning the outage ( Redit thread), but as more information came to light, it turns out it was because of misconfigured Cisco routers (essentially not enough memory).

Magento Frontend Order Not Showing

July 10, 2014 by JTS

We recently rolled out a new theme update and thought we had worked out all of the kinks. We received an issue where customers could not view any orders within their customer account screens. They could get to everything else, including actually re-ordering.

IT Purchasing Tips through eBay

May 7, 2014 by JTS

While we have found eBay to be a very good source for computer and other IT hardware, we have run into several situations that we’d like to avoid in the future.

There apparently is a new type of scam involving newly created ebay accounts. The accounts are created in the same month of a listed item and claim to be from the US. The product they list is from Hong Kong and claims to have a month long shipping process.

Oracle 12c Ubuntu Xen Server Setup

April 24, 2014 by JTS

We’ve recently started on a new Research and Development project to try and compare Oracle 12c with another database system. Our preferred tools are usually Ubuntu and Citrix XenServer, so we decided to create a new UBUNTU with plenty of spindle, memory and CPU power on our Xen Server.

WordPress Jetpack Troubleshooting

April 10, 2014 by JTS

Jetpack for WordPress is a great set of plugins to help publish and share your blog posts. Unfortunately, this functionality comes at the cost of it not always being the easiest to setup and/or install. In our experience we have found a pretty wide array of issues that cause it not to function properly, ranging from incompatible theme issues to other plugins.

Below are some tips to hopefully solving your issues and getting JetPack running.

Amazon Workspaces – Possible Boon for Small Business?

March 26, 2014 by JTS

Amazon announced “Workspaces”, a brand new fully managed cloud desktop environment, built on Windows 7. (Article).

It is a very compelling offer for SMB’s for several reasons.

DNN Search Box to Page with Search Results Module

March 20, 2014 by JTS

We recently started work on a DNN skin, where we needed a custom search input box to submit to a page with a search results … Read More

Jigar Patel Silva Tech Solutions LLC 2014 Internship Program

March 17, 2014 by JTS

We would like to welcome Jigar Patel to the Silva Tech Solutions LLC 2014 Internship Program! Jigar is a first-year, B.S. Computer Science and Business … Read More

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